Word: frantically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Houston," Armstrong called. "Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed." The time: 4:17:41 p.m,, E,D.T., just about H minutes earlier than the landing time scheduled months before, It was a wild, incredible moment. There were cheers, tears and frantic applause at Mission Control in Houston "You got a lot of guys around here about to turn blue," the NASA communicator radioed to Eagle "We're breathing again." A little later, Houston added: "There's lots of smiling faces in this room, and all over the world." "There are two of them up here," responded Eagle...
...succession of bartenders and bellhops, because of the numerous eager amateurs, among them single girls and divorcees drawn to the secretarial ranks of NASA and the space contractors. Liaisons often begin at "Thank God It's Friday" parties that fill the bars until past midnight, or at the frantic launch and splashdown celebrations thrown at The Mouse Trap or The Missile Lounge in Cocoa Beach...
...Crimson drove off the line powerfully, with a minimum of roughness, and quickly opened up a small lead. By the mile flags, they had a half-length on the Argonauts, but the British crew was raising its stroke to a frantic, punishing 41, gambling the race on its ability to pull even during the final 550 yards...
What keeps Jaramillo going, he feels, is the letters that his girl, Lydia Terrazas, writes almost daily. Frantic with concern for his safety, she writes him: "Artie, you have so much to come home to, please don't be foolish, come home to me." Jaramillo saves the letters in an old ammunition case, reads them as many as 25 times, then burns them because he knows he has more coming. They provide a link with the "real world." Like most G.I.s, Jaramillo also strings good-luck medals around his neck -including, in his case, one blessed by the Pope...
...scared and told Martin that he was going to sleep in Dave's room "because you're blowing your goddamned mind, you freak," but Martin didn't even hear him. He was completely absorbed in his hallucinations, which kept getting more and more intense, and more and more frantic. Somethings was going to happen very soon now, and Martin didn't want to miss it. Soon he had to grip the chair to keep from being thrown out, everything was going around so fast. But he tried to keep his eyes on the phone, and finally, as he watched...